CM Punk around the age he thought he could play on one of the best football programs in the state, lol.

Considering that the state was Illinois (my home state), I wouldn't have been surprised if even a nerd like he was at the time made the team. The Midwest is not exactly a football hotbed. The Big Ten is usually an embarassment. If Ohio State would have won their conference title game, FSU would have beaten them about 66-3 (robbing the country of a great FSU/Auburn game).

Considering that the state was Illinois (my home state), I wouldn't have been surprised if even a nerd like he was at the time made the team. The Midwest is not exactly a football hotbed. The Big Ten is usually an embarassment. If Ohio State would have won their conference title game, FSU would have beaten them about 66-3.

We had two guys on that team who are still playing pro football right now (17 years later). Our starting QB was a college starter with a full ride. Two QBs after my team, they had the guy who lost his starting job to Ricky Stanzi at Iowa. Phil didn't come remotely close.

If little guys like that were making rosters that you saw, you have to be used to much much smaller schools where the kids still play both sides of the ball. He'd have been way too undersized even for our JV. An ice cube dropped into a volcano had a better chance of surviving than that kid when we played someone like Joliet Catholic.

Considering that the state was Illinois (my home state), I wouldn't have been surprised if even a nerd like he was at the time made the team. The Midwest is not exactly a football hotbed. The Big Ten is usually an embarassment. If Ohio State would have won their conference title game, FSU would have beaten them about 66-3.

We had two guys on that team who are still playing pro football right now (17 years later). Our starting QB was a college starter with a full ride. Two QBs after my team, they had the guy who lost his starting job to Ricky Stanzi at Iowa. Phil didn't come remotely close.

If little guys like that were making rosters that you saw, you have to be used to much much smaller schools where the kids still play both sides of the ball. He'd have been way too undersized even for our JV. An ice cube dropped into a volcano had a better chance of surviving than that kid when we played someone like Joliet Catholic.

I didn't mean for my post (the one in red) to be totally serious. I was just venting because I got tired of college teams in the Midwest getting squashed in Bowl games. Monomach, I'm sure you have had some fine players. You could have come after me with both barrels, but you were classy enough to hold back. You are smart enough to not let smart asses like me bring you down.

C.M. Punk wanted to be a quarterback? That's interesting. I'm surprised he went out for football. He seems like the kind who would reject the sport and make fun of football players. Maybe he wanted to use football as a way to get girls. {LOL}

I didn't mean for my post (the one in red) to be totally serious. I was just venting because I got tired of college teams in the Midwest getting squashed in Bowl games. Monomach, I'm sure you have had some fine players. You could have come after me with both barrels, but you were classy enough to hold back. You are smart enough to not let smart asses like me bring you down.

C.M. Punk wanted to be a quarterback? That's interesting. I'm surprised he went out for football. He seems like the kind who would reject the sport and make fun of football players. Maybe he wanted to use football as a way to get girls. {LOL}

I kind of figured you were kidding, lol.

He didn't specifically come out for QB. I'm not sure he could even name all of the positions. Just seemed like a slow, weak, scrawny nerdy kid who wanted to make the team to "be cool."

Unfortunately, if we'd let him make the team, he'd have ended up dead. Our biggest kid might have legitimately weighed twice as much as him.